2615834 Colin Godfrey WRAY, 1 Grenadier Guards: 30/04/1945

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GUARDSMAN COLIN GODFREY WRAY
Service Number: 2615834
Regiment & Unit: Grenadier Guards, 1st Bn.
Date of Death: Died 30 April 1945
Age 25 years old
Buried or commemorated at BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: 7. A. 12.
Location: Germany


See also

• Horse Guards, Grenadier Guards & Irish Guards Casualties: Help with circumstances of death

 

Moved from 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards



Hello...I know this is an old Chat but maybe you are sometimes looking at it. Here is a picture of Colin Godfrey Wray's Grave in Becklingen/Germany.
He died in our Area. We don't know why. If someone of you knows the circumstances please contact me
We put up memorial stones for british soldiers who died in our community and Wray was one of them. Maybe anyone can help me

 

From Appendices
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010214115&view=1up&seq=9
confirmation that he was killed in action on that date


This volume covers NWE
The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.1.

 

Thanks...so it seems he died in our area infact of a fight? On that day the Armoured Car from Robin Tudsbery and his comrades exploded and they got killed. They drove over a remote controlled seamine but Wray didn't belong to them. That happened in a small village named Kutenholz which is not far away to Stade. Tudsbery and his comrades where on their way to Cuxhaven. In Kutenholz was a Lazarett. Maybe Wray was wounded and died infact of that. We would like to find out what exactly happened to him if it is still possible after all this time. And we would like to find a picture of him.

 

Thanks for your help